He is a recommended patent lawyer in the Intellectual Asset Management Patent 1000 listing, rated as one of the World’s Leading Patent Practitioners in 2012 and was acknowledged as a Legal Rising Star in the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, a leading Polish law & business journal.

Piotr is an appointed legal expert to the Polish Chamber of Commerce.

Piotr is a lecturer at the Hugo Grotius Intellectual Property Law Centre in Cracow, Higher School of Liberal Arts and Journalism in Poznan and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Between 2005-2010 was a lecturer at the Brand Communication Academy and SAR University under auspices of the SAR Marketing Communication Association.

Before joining us he was in charge of IP and media practices at some of the leading Polish law firms in this field and he also gained experience working at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the OSCE.

Piotr studied law at the Warsaw University in Poland, he also holds an LL. M. degree in European and Comparative law from the Universiteit Maastricht and a diploma in English and European legal studies from the University of Cambridge. He is fluent in Polish, English and German.

News & Events

This briefing note advises on the immediate considerations and anticipates how Brexit will impact the Life Sciences sector. This article is part of our Brexit series and Life Sciences businesses will be affected by all of the implications identified throughout this series and, in particular, our note on the English Intellectual Property law implications of Brexit.

On 23rd June the UK voted to leave the European Union ("Brexit"). This decision will continue to have a significant effect on the IP/IT market which has been governed by so many EU Regulations and Directives in the past (albeit not exclusively) that intricately bound the UK to the EU.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has held that it is an infringement of copyright to sell a physical back-up copy of a software program, even if the original physical copy has been damaged, lost or destroyed.

International law firm Bird & Bird is advising the Micro:bit Educational Foundation on future plans for the successful digital education tool, the micro:bit, launched earlier this year by Foundation member, BBC Learning. The firm advised pro bono on setting up a Not-For-Profit organisation, and ensuring it has the rights in place to take the micro:bit product forward.

Some of the South East's most visionary digital companies are today unveiled in the inaugural 'Digital Innovators Power List', created by international law firm Bird & Bird and London-based news brand City A.M.

A number of key changes to the Industrial Property Law governing trade mark registrations (among other things), are currently being implemented in Poland. The next package of amendments will significantly change the current trade mark registration procedure before the Polish Patent Office (PPO).